Table of Contents

Director’s Foreword Lenders to the Exhibition Contributors Acknowledgments Map of Italy Sanctity Pictured: The Art of the Dominican and Franciscan Orders in Renaissance Italy Trinita Kennedy The Changing Imagery of Saint Francis in the Basilica of San Francesco in Assisi Janet Robson Painting, Devotion, and the Franciscans Amy Neff Experiencing Dominican and Franciscan Churches in Renaissance Italy Donal Cooper Order, Gender, and Image: Art for Dominican and Franciscan Women Holly Flora In Search of Authenticity: The Art of the Dominican and Franciscan Orders in the Age of Observant Reform Trinita Kennedy Catalogue Bibliography Index Photograph Credits

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This book is the first major study to examine the art of these rival religious orders together, exploring the ways in which they used art as propaganda to promote the charisma of their saints and to articulate their revolutionary concept of religious vocation.

About the Author

Trinita Kennedy is Curator at the Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, TN, and formerly was Research Associate at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Donal Cooper is Lecturer in Italian Renaissance Art and Fellow of Jesus College, University of Cambridge. Holly Flora is Associate Professor, History of Art, at Tulane University. Amy Neff is Associate Professor, School of Art, at the University of Tennessee. Janet Robson is an independent scholar and co-author of The Making of Assisi: The Pope, the Franciscans, and the Painting of the Basilica.